Site Reliability Engineer - Big Data

Within Verisign, our team is responsible for building and managing Verisign Data Platform enabling the creation of large-scale, high-throughput (millions requests per second) data products and services delivering actionable operational and business intelligence. To help us advance the platform, we are looking for a highly skilled Mid-level Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). This role will play a critical part in ensuring the stability, performance, and security of our data platforms.

An ideal candidate should deeply care about big data systems and automation, be fluent in Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and be eager to learn as needed. The successful candidate should have an understanding of fundamentals, including core Computer Science concepts, operating systems, networking, file systems and databases accompanied by hands-on experience managing large-scale distributed systems. Acquiring these competencies typically requires an equivalent of a bachelor’s degree and 6 or more years of practical work experience. We are also open to other career paths.

The candidate will be involved in all aspects of the data platform, including ideation, design, implementation, deployment, customer onboarding and support. This implies regular cross-team collaboration with Data Engineering, Infrastructure, Engineering, Security, and Operation Teams. As part of the team, we expect the candidate to take ownership of the data platform, regularly interacting with the internal customers, proactively identifying, prioritizing, and delivering on their common data platform needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architecting, deploying, and managing large-scale data platforms (Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, Druid) running on top of Kubernetes
• Automating cluster provisioning (CICD), scaling and monitoring using Ansible, Python and Jenkins
• Participating in technical designs for software solutions that combine Open-Source, Commercial and custom developed components
• Ensuring platform SLOs by collecting, visualizing, and alerting on relevant telemetry
• Upgrading large-scale data platforms improving system capabilities and security while ensuring minimal customer impact
• Troubleshooting complex issues in large and distributed environments.
• Staying up to date with the industry data platform best practices and standards, focusing on hybrid cloud environments
• Supporting data platform customers
• Participating in the on-call rotation monitoring production systems and responding to incident

The candidate must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 5 years of experience managing big data platforms (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Druid)
• Excellent understanding of Linux configuration and administration
• Strong automation experience - Not just developing automation, but knowing why we automate and what to automate
• Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code such as Ansible
• Experience with Docker or Kubernetes in a production environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills – able to clearly and succinctly describe complex issues

This position is based in our Reston, VA office

The pay range is $108,900 - $147,300.

The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.